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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1984 POSTORIAL PAGE 4
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The Olympic Games
Between the Democratic and Republican Party
national conventions and shortly after Israel’s July 23
Knesset elections, Americans and Israelis will gather in
Los Angeles with numerous other nations for what is
the highlight of international athletic competition, the
Olympic Games.
Filled with its recent tradition of controversy, the
Games nonetheless provide a unique forum for some
10,000 athletes from around the world to share and
compete in the limelight of international cooperation
and friendship.
This friendship extends through the summer games
despite the decision by the Soviet Union to boycott the
Games and the action by the Eastern Bloc nations to
follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union.
Israel’s delegation, though small — 38 athletes who
are joined by a group of assorted coaches and officials,
does bring with it to Los Angeles that competi-
tive spirit and drive for success and the desire to bring
to Israel a top medal for the first time in more than a
decade of competition. The teams will compete in sports
such as Judo, yachting and boxing.
The weightlifting team will have but one competi-
tor, Meir Daloya. It is the image of the Israeli
weightlifting team which evokes memories of the
horrible terrorist attack on the Israeli athletes at the
1972 Games in Munich.
Israel in the past four years leading to this summer’s
Olympic Games has invested about $1 million in its
Olympic program. They will not however field a team in
the traditional American powerhouse sports of
basketball and waterpolo. But it can be assured that the
Israeli athletes, althoug small in number, will provide
evidence that they retain a fierce competitive spirit and
will perform admirably and proudly in Los Angeles.
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Between You and Me
Immigration - Yesterday and Today
BY BORIS SMOLAR
[Editor-in-chief emertius, J.T.A.]
[Copyright 1984, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.
IMMIGRATION YESTERDAY: Sixty
years ago earlier this month — on July 1,
1924 — Jewish mass emigration to the
United States from Poland, Galicia,
Rumania, the Baltic countries — as well as
emigration of Jews who succeeded to get
out of Soviet Russia and lived as refugees
mostly in Berlin and Paris — was cut off.
Congress adopted a National Origin Quota
system under which no more than 167,000
immigrants could enter the country
annually from all parts of the world.
Preference within this system was given
to those from West European coun-
tries at a time when emigration to the
U.S. of Jews from East European
countries was an urgency because of
poverty, anti-Semitism and oppression.
Wise, made representations in Wash-
ington, but to no avail. The situation of the
emigrants who continued to pour in from
Poland, Rumania and other countries with
their U.S. visas into the ports of
embarkation — only to discover there that
they will not be admitted to the United
States until their turn under the new
quota system will come — became even
more precarious when the countries in
which they were stranded threatened
them with expulsion. Under the new
quota, many of them would have to wait
form 10 to 15 years until their turn would
come. Jewish organizations in the U.S.
were deluged by frantic appeals for help.
HIAS sent a delegation which visited the
parts in the countries where many
thousands of Jewish emigrants found
themselves stranded. These ports were in
England, France, Holland, Germany,
Danzig, Latvia and Rumania.
Under the new immigration law,
entrance of immigrants born in Poland —
no matter in which country they resided
— was reduced from tens of thous-
ands a year to merely 5,982. The quota for
Rumania, an anti-Semitic country from
where there also was a large Jewish
emigration, was set at 603 a year. The
measure was a great blow for Jews in
East European countries. For them, the
drastic cut in the entrance of aliens under
the new law meant that the gates of the
country, which in earlier years welcom-
ed the poor and oppressed, were now
virtually slammed shut.
Thanks to the efforts of this dele-
gation, the deportations were stayed and
the steamship companies agreed to take
care of the migrants until final destin-
ations were found for them. The French
government agreed to have the emigrants
stay in the country, provided they did not
become public charges.
When the new law went into effect on
July 1, 1924, it left thousands of Jewish
emigrants who were already in posses-
sion of U.S. visas and steamship tickets
stranded at various ports in Europe.
About 8,000 Jewish emigrants from
Russia were faced with the grim news
that the quota for Russian-born had
already been filled for 1924.
Two emiment American Jewish lead-
ers, Louis Marshall and Rabbi Stephen S.
The situation demanded concerted
action. Leaders of 44 national Jewish
Organizations and labor unions held a
two-day conference in New York, presided
over by Louis Marshall and Rabbi Stephen
Wise at which an emergency commit-
tee was elected with Marshall as
chairman. The Canadian government
— which had barred immigration from
Eastern Europe — responded to an appeal
by that committee and granted, exception-
ally, admission to 5,000 Russian Jewish
refugees who were stranded in Ru-
mania. The Committee also sent a
commission to Mexico to investigate immi-
gration possibilities there. Felix Warburg,
chairman of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee visited a number of the European
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Ferraro - Outstanding Support For Israel
BY MORRIS J. AMITAY
While Washington slows
down in July — a direct
result both of the Congres-
sional recess and of the
humidity — interest turns
from legislation to politics.
Of course the hottest topic is
the precedent-shattering
move the Democratic presi-
dential nominee, Walter
Mondale, made in choosing
three-term Representative
Geraldine Ferraro to run for
Vice President on the
Democratic ticket. Unnotic-
ed by the national press but
of vital importance to the
Jewish community is Fer-
raro’s outstanding record of
support for Israel during her
tenure in Congress.
Jewish community — these
include support for every
foreign aid bill for Israel and
against all attempts to cut
this aid. She has also endors-
ed all initiatives to stop the
sale of sophisticated U.S.
equipment to nations hostile
to Israel.
commitment to Israel’s mili-
tary defense,” and she
warned against Administra-
tion policy that encouraged
Israel’s enemies to believe
the U.S. and Israel are no
longer acting in concert.
concern over Egypt’s pos; <
ble violations of the Can ,
David Agreement. Ferraro
has also sponsored legisla-
tion designed to improve
Israel’s economy by imple-
menting a U.S. - Israel Free
Trade Area.
Since assuming office in
1979, Ferraro has consis-
tently been supportive on all
issues of concern to the
While many chose to keep
silent, or were critical of
Israel during the 1982 war in
Lebanon, Ferraro publicly
suported Israel’s move into
Lebanon and opposed the
sanctions imposed by the
Reagan Administration on
Israel during this conflict. In
April, 1983, Ferraro visit-
ed Israel, Lebanon and
Cyprus, and following this
trip sent a letter to
President Reagan stating:
“Having just returned from
an official visit to Israel, I
am more concerned than
ever that the U.S. fulfill its
More recently she has
publicly stated that she
disagreed with virtually all
of Jesse Jackson’s positions
on the Middle East, includ-
ing “his advocacy of an
independent Palestinian
state on the West Bank and
Gaza, a withdrawal by Israel
from the occupied territor-
ies, an insistence that Israel
establish no more settle-
ments and that the U.S.
should open talks with the
PLO.” Ferraro is a princi-
pal co-sponsor of the House
In sum, her record h^
been an outstanding on3?
and her addition to the
Democratic national ticket
should be most reassuring to
friends of Israel.
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bill requiring the U.S. to
move its embassy to Jerusa-
lem, and has demonstrated
A number of Washin
columnists and foreign pol-
icy “experts,” including
some Administration offi-
cials in private, have ex-
pressed the hope that the
Labor Party in Israel will
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